Question follow-through · 40947
Welfare Assistance Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of Government funding for Local Welfare Assistance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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- Care Workers: Pay · 2 Jun 2025
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of Government funding for Local Welfare Assistance.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
Local welfare assistance funding is delivered through the Local Government Finance Settlement. The majority of funding in the local government finance settlement is unringfenced recognising that local leaders are best placed to identify local priorities.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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